R1Investing

Our investigation into R1Investing found an operation with the classic markings of an investment scam. If you are weighing a deposit — or trying to get one back — read this first.

Who is R1Investing?

R1Investing markets itself as an online trading and investment service. Its public site is presented at https://r1investing.com/. As with most operations of this kind, the polished front end conceals a lack of the basic protections a real, regulated broker is required to provide.

Is R1Investing regulated?

R1Investing provides no verifiable regulatory licence. An unregulated broker answers to no one: it can freeze withdrawals, invent fees, and disappear with deposits, all without consequence. This alone is reason enough to stay away.

Red flags we identified

• No credible physical address or verifiable corporate record
• Withdrawals reportedly blocked behind “taxes,” “fees” or account “upgrades”
• Opaque or anonymous corporate ownership
• Account dashboards that show “gains” with no real market exposure
• Offshore or shell-company registration used to avoid oversight

Our analysis

R1Investing claims to be an award-winning financial service provider, which is authorized and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). However, we did not find any match results for this broker in CySEC. The regulatory information this broker claim is a false statement for unsuspecting traders. The truth is, R1Investing is not under valid regulation by any regulators to do forex. Investors' funds in this broker are unsafe and cannot be protected by any law. Therefore, it is a scam.

Can you recover money lost to R1Investing?

If you have deposited with R1Investing, do not pay any further “fees” to withdraw — that is part of the trap. Funds sent to operations like this can sometimes be traced on-chain and pursued through the exchanges and processors that received them. Whether recovery is realistic depends on how you paid and how quickly you act.